Useful Software Guide 2011
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Aerosnap will do your windows 7 attach documents to the sides, top etc.

My question - any recommendations on screen capture software (free). I've tried a few and the resultant video is always flipped/reversed. Plus it would nice to have a radial glow around the mouse.. I fancy creating a few instructional videos. Something like Camtasia but free probably..

Oh, and I'm looking for something that will help me plan out entire days and help me force myself to do things at particular times of the day. PC/Mac/iPad/iPhone suggestions are all greatly appreciated. Something online/cloud based is preferable.

Not sure if it comes under this or not but I didn't want to start a new thread.

I'm going to install Ubuntu 10.10 onto a partition of my computer later. I'm a complete Linux newbie and no matter how much I read about it I think the best way for me to learn my way around an OS is just trail and error by myself (worked for me on windows and snow leopard) I know there are thousands of free/open applications but what are the essential ones a Linux user shouldn't go without and what 'pro' tips could anyone give to someone who are taking the first steps?

Ubuntu is ace these days. You will have Open Office installed with it, plus a bunch of other useful bits and pieces. It is worth grabbing VLC for all of your video needs, Conduit looks like it could be useful (http://live.gnome.org/Conduit), but I mostly use Ubuntu for web serving (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Php) as opposed to day to day desktop uses. Hopefully someone else will have more useful input than me!

If I'm honest I don't really need to use it (I have heard it's better for those who are getting into programming though) for anything specific but I just want to learn more about the OS its self as everyone I know who has used some form of Linux distribution never have a bad thing to say about it so I thought I'd start learning my way around it and I heard Ubuntu was the best place to start

Linux (Ubuntu and Mint in particular) is an extremely viable OS these days, and not just the realm of the ubergeek that it once was. However, I think it will struggle to lose that image, and that's why I have found some colleagues reluctant to move over to it.

In Higher Education (my field), there is a very strong argument for switching over to an Open Source OS in terms of the financial savings it would bring to increasingly cash-strapped universities, so I am hoping that more people will make the move.

I read a rather heartening news item yesterday that the Govt are thinking about moving away from Microsoft products and more towards Linux and Mac OS (not that the latter option is going to generate any savings!).

A new cool little app called Fluffyapp which is based on Cloudapp for the Mac. It's a little cloud storage thing that lets you drag and drop files easily and puts a small url into your clipboard for you to paste and share.